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New Crewmembers Settle In Aboard Space Station

Two cosmonauts, one U.S. astronaut and 32 fish are settling in for their stay aboard the International Space Station.

Russia’s Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft successfully docked with the orbiting outpost early Oct. 25, delivering Oleg Novitskiy, the Soyuz TMA-06M commander, Evgeni Tarelkin and NASA’s Kevin Ford. They were greeted by Expedition 33 station commander Sunita Williams of NASA, Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide and cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko. Novitskiy, Tarelkin and Ford are scheduled to live and work aboard the orbiting science lab until mid-March.

Also along for the ride were 32 Medaka fish needed for an experiment. The container with the small, transparent fish will be transferred to the station’s new aquatic habitat. The habitat was launched in July aboard Japan’s third H-II Transfer Vehicle resupply craft.

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A capsule has returned to earth, landing in the pacific after the first commercially contracted re-supply mission to the International Space Station (ISS).